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S. GROWELL. CAB. GOUPLING.

No. 515,750. Patanted Mar. 6, M394.

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Unirse Simfree Sereni* @erica SOMMERS OROVVELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO CLARA S. IVASS AND CHARLES J. VASS, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part f Letters Patent N0. 515,750, dated March 6, 1894.

Application filed November 7, 1893. Serial No. 490.299. (No model.)

To @Z whom it may concern,.- the cars'securely together, as will be more Be it known that I, SOMMERS OROWELL, a fully understood from the following detailed citizen of the United States, residing at Philadescription. delphia, in the county of Philadelphia and In the accompanying drawings which make 55 5 State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new a part of this specitication, Figure l, is aplan, and useful Improvement in Car-Couplings, of or top vievi7 of the improvement attached to which the following is a specification. portions of the end platforms ot' two cars, the Myinvention relates to an improvementin 4mechanism for operating the coupling pin car-couplings, in which appropriate mechanand its connected bar, being shown 'as con- 6o :o ism is applied therein, by means of which the nected to but one car. Fig. 2, represents a operation of coupling, or uncoupling cars,to, side view of the mechanism, and link, as at- 4or from each other, is attended Without risk, tached to a car. Fig. 3, represents an end i or personal injury to Athe operator, while at view. Fig. 4, represents a front elevation of Vthe same time assuring the act of connection, the steady bar D', in the guide plate I, the 65 i5 or disconnection. And consists in the first horizontal rod connecting it with the pin D,

place, in the means employed for impartbeing in section. ing a vertical movement to the coupling pin, Like letters of reference in all the figures f which has attached thereto-in its rear by indicate the same parts. means ot a horizontal rod, a steady bar, which A, represents portions of the end platforms 7o zo is capable of vertical reciprocating moveof a railway car, to which the coupling pin,

ments, in a passage, or bore of a plate secured and its connected parts are attached. upon the front end of the car, at right angles B, is a vertical plate secured to the end wall thereto. The vertical movements of the bar, of a car by means of a series of bolts a; proand pin are accomplished by means of the jecting horizontally, or at right angles there- 75 reciprocating actuationofasliding horizontal from, is the plate C, which is securely atrod held in a bearing at the side and above tached thereto, seen clearly in Figs. l, and 2. the pin and its connected rod, to which it is This plate O, has an orifice b, out through it, attached by means of a Wire rope, or chain, centrally arranged transversely, into which the latter moving over a pulley placed midthe end of the coupling pin passes, when the 8o 3o Way between the horizontal reciprocating rod cars are coupled together, and a correspondand the connected couplingpin and bar, ing oritice b2, for the passage of the bar D.

whereby the reciprocating vertical move- The link into which the coupling pin D, ments are eiected to couple, or uncouple the passes, isformed ot' a pair of horizontal plates cars. E, with a space between their inner surfaces 8 5 In the second place, the invention relates of sufficient depth, to permit of the insertion to the construction of the link employed for within said space of the body of the horizonconnecting the cars, and consists in a pair of tal projecting plate O. These plates E, are plates arranged in a horizontal position and provided with an orifice h', ont vertically parallel with each other, to which a series of through them, elongated lengthwise to pen 9o 4o yokes is bolted, and provided with a pair of mit of the coupling pin D, passing readily semi-elliptic springs, which is bolted midway into the orifice b, of the horizontal plate C. of their length to the sides of the middle These plates are held in theirproper positions yokes, the ends ot the springs being free, and in relation to each other by means of the yokes contracted laterally; and resilient in their ac- G, and G", G', to which they are connected by g5 tion, to allow of the entrance between them, the rivets CZ, seen in Figs. l, and 2.r To the and the horizontal plates above-mentioned sides of the yoke G, (i. e., the middle yoke) are of a plate extended in same direction from secured the resilient springs H, the bolts c, the vertical plate bolted tothe end of the holding them firmly in place. The 'ends of car. These last-mentioned plates are prothis pair of springs H, are free, and are caw@ 5o vided with orifices through them into which pablo of lateral resilient action within the the ends of the coupling pins pass and couple area of the end yokes G', G.

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SOMMERS ORO'WELL.

i/Vitnesses:

THOMAS J. BEWLEY, S. E. W. BEWLEY. 

